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'Boothia Peninsula' (formerly 'Boothia Felix') is a large peninsula in the Canadian Arctic, south of Somerset Island. The northern part, Murchison Promontory, is the northernmost point of mainland Canada, and thus North America.
The peninsula was named by the Scottish explorer John Ross in 1829 after Felix Booth, the patron of Ross' second expedition. Ross encountered a large Inuit community whom he described as living in "snow cottages" – igloos – and immortalized in the painting ''North Hendon'' [1].
The north magnetic pole was at one point located here by Ross.

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